Today I began early and spent a full six hours refining and developing aspects of Sleepy, aka Isabella Airyfairyabelous & the Sleepy Dragon. It’s amazing the way, we make changes, streamline and develop our literary works, only to discover the dumb bits creep back into the text. I find this aspect of self-editing annoying… The challenge for many writers is to generate original literary stories with plot, theme, characters and ticking bombs for suspense. This generating material from scratch requires successive realisations, during which we define and delineate our territory. The path, though well travelled, is never simple, for there is, I would argue another level in developing our literary…

Dear book retailers & Literary Agents IMPORTANT UPDATE ABOUT ORIGINAL FLYING PIGS! If you are looking for stock of my fabulous children’s fiction, Galaxy Trotters, this great novel is still available in first edition.  I am willing to sign it if you like too. What an opportunity! My children’s sci fi fantasy novel received rave reviews and is currently listed on the Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge. I still have author copies in boxes, so the lead-up to Christmas is a great opportunity to stock up on first editions. and is Said to be fun to read for all ages, and demonstrably witty and humorous, Galaxy Trotters is a great opportunity…